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On maiden visit to Cuba and Mexico, Pope Benedict can't escape predecessor's outsize shadow (sun-sentinel)
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- For his first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America,
Pope Benedict XVI has chosen the region's most Roman Catholic country -- and
its least.In Catholic Mexico, towns throw parties for their patron saints,
pilgrims prostrate themselves at shrines and many people still cross
themselves every time they pass a church. In Cuba, abortions are legal and
many adults have been divorced more often than they've been to Mass.Cuba's
churches are mostly empty and until the 1990s, believers were barred from the
Communist Party.What the two countries on the pope's weeklong itinerary share
is a disaffection with a German pontiff known as a staid academic who is
uncomfortable with Latin America's mix of Catholicism and popular mysticism,
and its legions of unsanctioned saints.For many Catholics, the papal visit to
Mexico starting March 23 is long overdue, given that it has more Catholics
than any other Spanish-speaking country.In Cuba, the trip is seen as the
Vatican's recognition of the church's work nudging the Communist government to
release political prisoners and institute economic reforms. That effort has
given the church an outsized political role, despite the fact that practicing
Catholics make up only 10 percent of ...
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